Count number of shaded cells

[Maddoktor]

I have a number of colour cells in column A. For example: I may have two
yellow cells, 3 red cells and 4 blue cells. I would like a formula that can
count the number of either the yellow, red or blue cells in a particular
column. I would then like to expand this to counting the number of certain
colour cell (example ... yellow cells) in a number of columns. i.e columns A
to F.

Thank you in advance.

 

[Frank Kabel]

Hi
not possible with formulas alone. This requires VBA. See:
http://www.xldynamic.com/source/xld.ColourCounter.html
and
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/colors.htm

 

[Paul B]

Maddoktor, have a look here http://www.cpearson.com/excel/colors.htm
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